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Gardner, Michael R The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR MICHAEL R. GARDNER Published August 2014 Copyright Michael R. Gardner Used with permission TABLE OF CONTENTS This Oral History covers the Ambassador’s service as United States Ambassador-Head of Delegation to the 1982 Plenipotentiary Conference in Nairobi, Kenya. Two chapters from his book, King of Sprinkle – A Charmed Life are included. The book is available on Lulu.com http://www.lulu.com/shop/search.ep?keyWords=king+of+sprinkler&type= Nairobi and Hollywood 1982 Deregulation of US broadcasting industry FCC Transition Report Mark Fowler Prime Time Access Rule (PTAR) Fin-Sync Rules Hollywood Coalition for Prudent Regulation Lew Wasserman Fin-Syn Rules Lead Counsel for the Coalition for Prudent Deregulation Nairobi, Kenya experience Preparations for Nairobi Meeting Israel Environment Tourism – Salt Lick Giraffes President Daniel arap Moi Coup d’état “Lost” at Diana Reef Resort “Escape” Gun at the head “I’m Sorry Kenya” A stick of gum as successful bribe Terror and lawlessness Israel, the Vatican, the Soviet Union and the International Telecommunications Conference in Nairobi, Kenya Saudi Arabia demarche urging Israel expulsion from the ITU Heated debates Tension among delegates Israel Expulsion Resolution Meeting with Soviet Union delegate “Big Paw” Soviet “secret ballot” solution Vatican delegate Vatican solution to Resolution US instructions if Israel expelled Success USTTI INTERVIEW Nairobi and Hollywood By late spring of 1982, my law practice had shifted completely to the fast growing, exciting world of communications policy. By that time, the Reagan-appointed Chairman of the FCC, a former broadcast attorney named Mark Fowler, was aggressively pushing for sweeping deregulation of the U.S. broadcasting industry. While I supported deregulation, I favored adherence to a basic recommendation of my FCC Transition Report - namely prudent deregulation. And prudent deregulation is what the Hollywood community wanted- thoughtful, incremental deregulation that would still prevent the three networks from abusing their collective, gatekeeper control over every program aired in primetime. This was an era before cables' and satellites' pay programming and digital services offered consumers nearly unlimited choices. So, Hollywood moguls, confronting a particularly determined deregulator with the Reagan Administration's FCC Chairman Fowler, knew they were especially vulnerable if the FCC eliminated three sister rules- the Prime Time Access Rule (PTAR), the Financial Interest Rule and the Syndication Rules (Fin-Syn.) Adopted almost a decade earlier by the Nixon FCC and codified into consent decrees between the then three networks and the Justice Department, the PTAR and Fin-Syn rules had opened up prime time programming to creative independent producers who thrived because they produced and distributed diverse entertainment (and sometimes socially provocative) programming like The Cosby Show, All in the Family, Dallas, the Golden Girls, etc. The then three national television networks tenaciously sought the repeal of the PTAR and the Fin-Syn rules -- rules that deflected a $5 billion annual revenue stream to Hollywood by restricting the three networks from producing or syndicating prime time television programming. As it turned out, my first communications client after my FCC transition duties ended was a group of competitive Hollywood television programmers who were born under the shield of the PTAR. Fortunately, for me and my growing communications law practice, in spite of FCC Chairman Fowler's efforts to repeal the PTAR, my Coalition blocked this potentially precedent setting deregulation by one vote. The three networks were stunned -- and the new FCC Chairman was furious. After all, this was supposed to be the era of total deregulation -- not prudent deregulation! As my luck would have it, my successful defense of the Prime Time Access Rule made me the go-to guy for the Hollywood Studios when CBS, ABC and NBC turned their attention in 1982 to repealing the Fin-Syn Rules. From the networks perspective, the repeal of Fin-Syn was understandably a multi-billion dollar priority; in the networks view, it was time to let the networks once again produce and syndicate their own prime time schedule, not Hollywood's studios and independent producers. Billions in annual revenues were at stake, and with the Reagan Administration's and Chairman Fowler's deregulatory agenda, CBS, ABC and NBC had the stage set for victory. But that's before the legendary Lew Wasserman, Chairman of MCA and its Universal Studio, determined that the Fin-Syn Rules should remain unchanged. I got lucky; Lew Wasserman hired me to run a new Hollywood Coalition appropriately called "The Coalition for Prudent Deregulation." Wasserman told me years later that he decided to hire me because of my past success in 1981. If I could beat the networks' over repeal of the weakest of the three rules, I had the stuff to protect the Fin-Syn Rules. So I became the lead Counsel of a Coalition consisting of all the major Hollywood studios, and importantly, the 250 plus independent producers who created the television shows that aired Monday through Friday nights on the three networks. As it turned out, I became Lew Wasserman's communications attorney for the next two decades. For twenty plus years, one of the most respected men in Hollywood mentored me, shared his incredible insights about all the Presidents he had been close to from JFK to Bill Clinton, named me to the Board of Directors of MCA's spinoff broadcast company when he sold MCA to the Japanese, and even gave me and Theresa the use of his Belgravia townhouse when we were in London. He would become a great force in my life -- but first we had to derail Chairman Fowler's number one priority: total repeal of the Fun-Syn rules. And that's when Lew assembled the initial team: me as lead counsel, the pioneering female lobbyist and former aide to Governor Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reynolds; the legislative troops from Akin Gump; and MPAA's energetic CEO, Jack Valenti. While our ranks would grow to include dozens of other lawyers and lobbyists during the 10-year plus long Fin-Syn fight, Lew Wasserman's handpicked original team would keep the networks (that grew to include Fox) regulated until the Fin-Syn rules were finally repealed in the early 1990s. While Hollywood's Coalition for Prudent Deregulation was starting in the spring of 1982 to engage Chairman Fowler and the three resourceful networks in battle at the FCC and on Capitol Hill, a totally unrelated thing happened. The Reagan White House, with the urging of some key GOP friends, asked me in June 1982 to head the U.S. delegation to a United Nation's Telecommunications Treaty Conference in Nairobi, Kenya. Scheduled to take place at Nairobi's huge Kenyatta Center from September through mid-November 1982, the U.N.'s International Telecommunications Union's (ITU) Plenipotentiary Conference would require extensive bilateral meetings around the world for the U.S. Ambassador if I accepted the job. Moreover, the job would require building a long-overdue consensus between warring officials from the U.S. Department of State and U.S. Commerce Department. Friction was so bad between the federal telecom policy experts that each Department put out separate, often differing, white papers on the key 76 issues to be addressed at the conference -- 152 different white papers in all. But, as bad as things were between the federal members of the U.S. delegation, and as busy as I was organizing the Coalition for Prudent Deregulation, I was really intrigued: a six-month Ambassadorship with pre-conference travel around the world -- followed by 10 weeks in exotic Kenya. And happily, Theresa, who had sometimes shown a strong antipathy toward ambassadors, was on board. "Okay Mick, I'll do it -- as long as Courtney and Christine and I can share as much as possible in this experience -- and that means travel to Africa and phone calls from you every morning and every night." Theresa, a Montessorian, knew the great educational value of travel and exposure to varied cultures; in fact, when Courtney was just seven and Christine was five years old, Theresa chose a three-week family Christmas trip through Western and Central Europe, rather than buy drapes for our new house. So taking the girls now 10 and 8 to Kenya for a pre- conference bi-lateral was a priority. However, there were two big hurdles yet to be scaled before I could accept: (1) I needed a free watts line to call home twice a day, as well as to stay in touch with clients as we built up the Coalition for Prudent Deregulation, and (2) I needed the FCC Chairman to delay, for at least six months while I was doing the Nairobi gig, the just commenced FCC rulemaking to repeal of the Fin-Syn rules. How could I go off on this tempting assignment and leave Lew Wasserman and wonderful independent producers like Marian Rees and Marcy Carsey to the vagaries of the networks' legions of lawyers and lobbyists? Miraculously, both of my needs were promptly met: I'd have the only secure watts phone line in Kenya and the Fin-Syn rulemaking would be put on the backburner, at least until I was permanently home from Nairobi. So, I immediately started reading the 152 policy papers and began scheduling the "must do bilaterals" -- meetings intended to build consensus around major U.S. positions. And when consensus wasn't possible, I had to at least flush out the opposition so there were no big surprises when the U.S. delegation arrived in Nairobi. One issue "you definitely don't have to worry about Ambassador Gardner", a senior State Department official confidently confirmed, was the expulsion of Israel from the United Nations due to Israel's devastating assault on Beirut, Lebanon.
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